424 I. DiscoLiCHENES (Wainio). [Leculea 



cante, nudo, opaco, margine tenui, disco concolore, persistente. 

 Excipulum dilute pallidum, in margine extus violaoeo-rufescens. 

 Hypotheoium pallidum. Hymenium jodo persistenter cisrulescens. 

 Epithecium violaceo-rufescens. Paraphyses arete cohserentes, 

 tenues, baud connexre. Asci clavati. Sporse 8nse, disticha?, 

 simplices, decolores, ellipsoidese, long. 0009 ad O'OIS, crass. 

 0"006 ad 0'007 mm. Affinis prsecedenti. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — Ad truncos arboris Arfcocarpeee in sylvis primitivis 

 prope Sange. No. 1726. 



18. L. canorubella Wain., Etud. Liob. Bres. ii. p. 51. 

 Hypotbecium fusco-fuligineum. Excipulum extus pallidum. 



Apotbecia sordide fusco-testacea, margine fere concolore. Spor* 

 long. 0009 ad 0-012, crass. 0005 ad O'OOS mm. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — Ad corticem arboris Artocarpeee in sylvis prop& 

 Sange. No. 171. 



19. L. caliginosa Stirt. L. fuscorubescens Nyl.,' Lich. Andam. 

 (1874), p. 10; Cromb., Lieb. Cball. p. 216, baud Nyl., Lich. 

 Port-Nat. (1868), p. 8. 



Var. rhacocarpa Wain. Apotbecia aggregato-prolifera aut 

 ambitu lobata aut pro minore parte simplicia, 0'5 ad 1'2 mm. 

 lata, disco testaceo, piano aut convexiusoulo, margine tenui, 

 nigricante, persistente. Hypotbecium fuscofuligineum, excipulum 

 extus pallidum. Hymenium totum decoloratum, jodo persistenter 

 cserulescens. Parapbyses arete cohserentes, in KHO sat laxse, 

 baud connexse. Sporse Snse, distichse, simplices, decolores, long. 

 0-009 ad 0-012, crass. 0-006 ad 0-008 mm. Tballus sat tenuis 

 aut mediocris, rimulosus, superficie leviter inajquali, parcissime 

 granulosa, glaucescens, bypothallo crebre contexto nigricante 

 angusto passim limitatus. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — Ad truncos Diospyri in Serra de Alta Queta. 

 No. 170. 



20. L. granifera Ach., Syn. Lich. (1814), p. 163 (secund. herb. 

 Acb.). L. awigera Fee, Ess. Crypt. Ecorc. (1824), p. 106, 

 Wain., Etud. Lich. Bres. II. p. 54. 



Var. lecanoroides Wain. Verrucje tballi intus stramineo-albidse. 

 Apotbecia disco nigricante aut fusco, margine albido aut cinereo- 

 albicante, integro. 



GoLUNGO Alto (lOOO ad 2400 ped. s. m.).— Ad truncos vigentes in 

 sylvis primaevis in Serra de Alta Queta (No. 145), at inter Sange et 

 Trombeta (No. 155). 



Var. leucotropoides Wain. Verrucse tballi intus stramineo- 

 albidse. Apotbecia disco testaceo, margine albido aut cinerascente 

 aut circa hymenium nigro, subintegro. 



Sierra Leone. ^ — Ad truncos arborum (Spondias) prope Freetown. 

 No. 166. 



21. L. Mossamedana Wain., sp. n. 



Tballus crnstaceus, sat tenuis aut mediocris, vei-ruculis circ. 

 0-2 mm. latis aut parcius etiam verrucis areolisve irregularibus 



